heated up
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Made warm or hot: The state of having been increased in temperature. This is the literal, physical meaning.
- Agitated, excited, or angry: A figurative meaning describing a state of emotional intensity or arousal. (Note: This meaning is often associated with the variant "het up").
Examples of Usage
- Adjective (Literal - Made warm):
- She served the heated-up soup. (The soup was cold and then made warm again.)
- The room became heated up after the sun shone through the windows all afternoon.
- Adjective (Figurative - Agitated):
- The debate got everyone heated up. (The debate caused people to become emotionally excited or angry.)
- He was all heated up about the unfair decision. (He was very agitated or angry about it.)
Advanced Usage
- "Het up": This is a dialectal or informal variant of "heated up," almost exclusively used for the figurative, emotional meaning. It is often written as two words.
- There's no need to get all het up over a small mistake. (There's no need to become so agitated.)
Variants and Related Words
- Heat up (phrasal verb): To make or become warm or hot; to make or become more intense or active.
- Can you heat up this coffee for me? (Make it warm.)
- The competition is starting to heat up. (Become more intense.)
- Heated (adjective): Made hot; characterized by anger or excitement.
- a heated argument (an angry, intense argument)
- Het (adjective, dialectal): A variant of "heated," primarily used in the phrase "het up."
Synonyms
- Warmed, reheated (for the literal meaning).
- Agitated, worked up, excited, riled up, inflamed (for the figurative meaning).
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Heat up: As noted above, this is the verb form from which the adjective "heated up" is derived. It means to increase in temperature or intensity.
- I'll heat up some leftovers for dinner.
- Tensions began to heat up between the rival groups.
Related Idioms
- To get hot under the collar: To become angry or agitated. This idiom is similar to the figurative use of "heated up."
- He gets hot under the collar whenever someone criticizes his work.
Adjective
- made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')
- a heated swimming pool
- wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana
- he was all het up and sweaty